check the consistency between different sensors, e.g. MODIS and SPOT VGT

adjust the data recorded by different sensors to each other

It’s easy and fast in R. Let’s say we have two raster stacks or bricks which contain 120 rasters each, one with NDVI and one with rainfall (named “NDVI” and “rainfall”). We put everything in one single stack and derive rasters showing the slope, intercept and R² of the two time series as pixel values:

It only works if your two stacks have the same dimensions and NA values, if not, you can try something like that:

z = mask(NDVI, rainfall)
s <- stack(z, rainfall)

and do the analysis as described above.

This example shows R² between annually summed NDVI (SPOT VGT) and TRMM rainfall from 1998-2010 for the Linguere district in Senegal, and we see that major differences exist, which need to further examined.